Rarely, it can occur as a complication associated with a percutaneous renal biopsy procedure. The clinical manifestations vary from asymptomatic lesions found incidentally on imaging studies to a mass ...

On May 7, 2025, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) released the full guideline for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating lupus nephritis (LN), which appeared in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Objective To investigate second kidney biopsy as predictor of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in active lupus nephritis (LN). Methods Patients with biopsy-proven LN (International Society of ...

Second, unlike other studies, surgical correlation and validation of percutaneous biopsy results were not performed because several of our patients pursued nonsurgical options. For this reason ...

Renal biopsy is invasive with well characterised, if rare, risk of haemorrhage. While the initial biopsy confirms the diagnosis, nephritis class and other parameters, prediction of treatment response ...

A percutaneous renal biopsy revealed active chronic pyelonephritis; the tissue culture was sterile. Two urine cultures before biopsy and 8 more over the next 5 months were negative. The urine ...

The finding supported its adoption as the preferred hemostatic method in children undergoing percutaneous liver biopsy. However, there is a lack of studies on children undergoing liver biopsy, ...

Our data demonstrate that percutaneous lung biopsy continues to be a relatively safe and accurate method of establishing tissue diagnosis for lung nodules. However, as we aggressively pursue ...

New codes and introductory language that became effective January 1, 2015 to describe percutaneous treatment of vertebral fractures have raised questions from users, which this article attempts to ...

(UroToday.com) Dr. Lucshman Raveendran from the University of Toronto presented a comprehensive review of a 20-year single-center experience evaluating the diagnostic performance and clinical utility ...